The side effects of newly discovered COVID strain XEC might not be more severe, but appears to be more contagious, ...

Whooping cough cases are climbing at the fastest pace in years as students across America return to school, U.S. health ...

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against ...

The mpox outbreak in Africa is still not under control, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) ...

The COVID-19 variant KP.3.1.1 rose 12.7% and now makes up over 50% of COVID cases, the CDC Nowcast data tracker shows.

Overdose deaths have continued to drop, now at their lowest level in 3 years, data shows, but remain higher than pre-pandemic ...

Kennedy Jr. influence public health under another Trump administration? The known vaccine skeptic says he's helping pick the ...

Former independent presidential candidate and antivaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that former President Trump ...

A second health worker in contact with the Missouri patient who tested positive for bird flu also developed symptoms but wasn ...

A close contact of a Missouri resident identified as having a human case of the H5N1 avian flu also became sick around the ...

The CDC just released data that show a lot of children died of the flu last year. Here's what doctors recommend.